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The Indiana Daily Student

Foul play not ruled out in deaths

Death of potential witness in murder trial being investigated

A woman who was found dead in an apartment on May 25 was to have been a key witness in an upcoming murder trial stemming from a fatal drug overdose.\nJanna S. Monyhan, 39, and David C. Huffman, 35, were found dead at Huffman's Bloomington apartment on the city's west side. Police said no signs of trauma were found to either body.\nInvestigators are awaiting the results of toxicology tests performed during an autopsy Sunday, but it could take as long as six weeks to receive that information, police Capt. Joe Qualters told The Herald Times.\nFoul play has not been ruled out in either death, he said.\n"It's very much an active case for us to pursue and we'll be looking at all aspects of it," Qualters said.\nMonyhan was expected to testify at the murder trial of Paul A. Crider, 50, who is accused of causing the March 2001 death of Randy Wagner, 49, of Spencer, Ind., from a cocaine and heroin overdose.\nMonyhan was one of three people prosecutors say were present when Crider mixed the drugs and injected Wagner at a trailer home in Bloomington.\nShe told authorities that she tried to revive Wagner using CPR and urged Crider to call 911, but he refused. She said Crider and another man loaded Wagner's body on a pickup truck and left with it. Wagner's body was found the next day at a home in northern Monroe County after police received an anonymous tip.\nMonroe County Deputy Prosecutor Mary Ellen Diekhoff said Monyhan's death would not affect Crider's trial.\n"The state will proceed with its prosecution," she said. "It's not changing my plans to go forward or not"

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